NPR News: 03-11-2026 10PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, the U.S. will release 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help stabilize world markets. That's part of a coordinated release of stockpiles from 32 different nations, which was announced earlier today in PR's Camila Domenoski reports. The countries in the International Energy Agency have unanimously agreed to their largest ever release from emergency stockpiles. Here's IEA Executive Director Fati Birl. IEA countries will be making 400 million barrels of oil available. I repeat, 400 million barrels of oil available. Nearly 40% of those barrels will come from the U.S. Reserve, released gradually over the next four months. Experts say tapping into stockpiles can only partially address the disruption of oil trade caused by the war with Iran. Camila Domenoski, NPR News. The U.N. Security Council is condemning Iran for launching missiles and drones at Gulf

1:00Arab countries. Russia and China argue that the Council should also be criticizing the U.S. and Israel for launching the war, as NPR's Michelle Kellman reports. Russia and China abstained, allowing the resolution drafted by Bahrain to pass, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz says it had a record number of co-sponsors, 135 countries, and a sign of just how united the world is against Iranian missile and drone strikes. Iran's strategy of sowing chaos, of trying to hold their neighbors hostage, has clearly backfired, and that was shown by this vote today. Russia's Ambassador proposed a different text, but that one failed. Vasily Nibbensis, as countries didn't muster enough strength to call out those who started this war, the U.S. and Israel, Michelle Kellman and NPR News, the State Department. President Trump took aim at Congressman Thomas Masi during a rally in Kentucky today. He's the Republican detractor of the president who's up for re-election.

2:01Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman has more. Appearing in Hebron Kentucky, which is in Masi's district, Trump called the Congressman quote, the worst person. Thomas Masi is a disaster for our party. He comes from a state that I won by a landslide, got the highest vote in the history of your commonwealth. Masi, a fiscal hawk, voted no on Trump's major tax and spending package to the one big beautiful bill. He's also pushed for the release of the Epstein files. More recently, Masi supported a war power's resolution to require congressional approval before Trump pursues further military action in Iran. It failed. Trump heavily promoted former Navy SEAL ed Galrain, Masi's primary challenger. From PR News, I'm Sylvia Goodman and Hebron. In inflation, state elevated last month's gas prices rose, and those prices are expected to push inflation even higher when data for this month is released in early April. This is NPR news.

3:01Lift has agreed to protect the rights of blind and disabled riders to travel with service animals under a Minnesota settlement that applies nationwide. State officials announced the deal in the case of a college student who said that drivers repeatedly refuse to let her service dog ride along. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says lift now has to train drivers on disability rights and warn them they can lose access to the platform if they violate the law. Britain is ending hereditary seats in the upper house of parliament. The move ends a tradition dating back centuries as NPR's Lauren Freyre reports from London. They're called hereditary peers, and all 92 of them are white men with an average age of about 70. They've inherited their seats in parliament, many by male only bloodlines that go back centuries. There used to be more of them in the more than 800 seat house of lords, but reforms back in 1999 capped their numbers, and now hereditary purge is being eliminated altogether. In a compromise reached by political parties, they will be able to sit in parliament through

4:04the end of the current session, which is likely in May, and some of them will be able to keep their seats until they die, but will not be able to pass them on to descendants. Lauren Freyre and PR News London An old NASA science satellite has plunged to Earth, the Van Allen probe A crashed down in the Pacific west of the Galapagos Islands. Launched in 2012, it flew through the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth, studying them for seven years before ceasing its twin. The Van Allen probe B is still orbiting Earth, but no longer functioning. We're listening to NPR News from Washington.